A curious (and kind of clever) attempt to get more views on Livejournal
So not long after I put up my last post, I got a notification that someone linked to it.
Curious, I followed the link - and it turned out to be a post about Tajik and Han communities in Tashkurgan, the capital of China's Tashikurgan Tajik Autonomous County. And the hot (and not so hot) Tajik girls dima-pashchenko saw there. Leaving aside the lusting over Tajik girls, the post is actually kind of interesting... And it has nothing to do with what my post was. And, more curiously, I couldn't figure out where the heck he put the link to my post.
But as I looked very carefully at the bottom of the post, I noticed that his end note was followed by a whole bunch of dots. And each dot was a link to a random LJ post by a different user. I counted at least 12 links.
He had since deleted all those links, but they've done what they were supposed to do. They triggered alerts in our inboxes. They exposed his post to people who would not otherwise see it.
Why did he choose me, out of all users? I don't know. But I have to admire a certain degree of cleverness behind this attempt to promote his LJ. It's kind of like Twitter and Facebook tagging... except much more subtle. And unconstrained by character limits. He could include hundreds, even thousands of links of he felt like it.
Granted, I don't think anyone would bother to go through that much busywork just to get more views... But the possibility is there.
Curious, I followed the link - and it turned out to be a post about Tajik and Han communities in Tashkurgan, the capital of China's Tashikurgan Tajik Autonomous County. And the hot (and not so hot) Tajik girls dima-pashchenko saw there. Leaving aside the lusting over Tajik girls, the post is actually kind of interesting... And it has nothing to do with what my post was. And, more curiously, I couldn't figure out where the heck he put the link to my post.
But as I looked very carefully at the bottom of the post, I noticed that his end note was followed by a whole bunch of dots. And each dot was a link to a random LJ post by a different user. I counted at least 12 links.
He had since deleted all those links, but they've done what they were supposed to do. They triggered alerts in our inboxes. They exposed his post to people who would not otherwise see it.
Why did he choose me, out of all users? I don't know. But I have to admire a certain degree of cleverness behind this attempt to promote his LJ. It's kind of like Twitter and Facebook tagging... except much more subtle. And unconstrained by character limits. He could include hundreds, even thousands of links of he felt like it.
Granted, I don't think anyone would bother to go through that much busywork just to get more views... But the possibility is there.